How common is the surname Kouba?

1,443 people in the United States had the surname Kouba in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 213,961 Americans. It ranked 18,918th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Kouba getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,467 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,443 in 2010, down 1.6%.

The surname Kouba

A Czech surname, carried by 1,443 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex K100

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kouba is more common than 88.3% of them.

Origin

Czech origin

A surname from Czech.

One of 96 Czech surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,443 people named Kouba in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 213,961 Americans. That is down 1.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,467.

#18,918

rank among US surnames

1,443

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

-1.6%

change since 2000 (was #17,639)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#18,910	Haver	1,444	213,813
#18,918	Asare	1,443	213,961

Who is named Kouba

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

96% of people named Kouba identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.7% as two or more races and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Two or more races 1.7%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Kouba

Kouba has the Soundex code K100, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K100.

Other Czech surnames

All 96 Czech surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Kouba come from?: Kouba is Czech in origin.
How common is the surname Kouba?: 1,443 people in the United States had the surname Kouba in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 213,961 Americans. It ranked 18,918th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Kouba?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Kouba identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.7% as two or more races.
Is the surname Kouba getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,467 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,443 in 2010, down 1.6%.